# You have superhuman strength now - how profit? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 16, 2019, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-superhuman-strength-now-how-profit/832643 "2019-04-16T20:29:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2019, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-superhuman-strength-now-how-profit/832643/41 "2019-04-18T15:31:18Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > What about being a professional cyclist? Like competing in the Tour De France? I admit I’m more than 100% ignorant to sport biking, but my dumb logic says that if superhuman strength translates to leg strength as well, you could just power pedal the whole thing, no? You wouldn’t even need that much stamina because one or two leg pumps would keep you going forever, even up mountains Seems to me that delivering enough power to propel yourself over a mountain in just one or two pumps would cause your bicycle to explode under you like an IED. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2019, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-superhuman-strength-now-how-profit/832643/42 "2019-04-18T15:59:57Z")
> [@BobBitchin](#): > > Easy…I’ll become a magician. Bending coins and steel bars, levitating cars on my finger tips etc. > > No one will ever think I’m actually lifting cars, so I must be a good illusionist.:eek:😃 I like this. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2019, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-superhuman-strength-now-how-profit/832643/43 "2019-04-18T16:01:54Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Seems to me that delivering enough power to propel yourself over a mountain in just one or two pumps would cause your bicycle to explode under you like an IED. I didn’t mean literally two pumps to go over a mountain, but rather your stamina wouldn’t be as much of an issue because the strength of your pedals would keep you going ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2019, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-superhuman-strength-now-how-profit/832643/44 "2019-04-18T20:37:24Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > I’d avoid the shadowy research labs by going straight to the well-lit and transparent labs. If that mysterious super-strong guy that’s being studied by Johns Hopkins Medical Institute, the National Institute for Health, and the Mayo Clinic and is talked about in all of the news sources disappears, people are going to want to know why. This (except in my case, it’ll probably be the Weizmann Institute, Sheba Medical Center and Tel Aviv University). And it won’t just be for protection, either: maybe they could use what they learn from my condition to cure cancer, or fix spinal injuries, or something else; and if the military wanted to use me to make super-soldiers, good for them. I have no problem with that. I’ll be knowledge, and knowledge is meant to be shared. As for profit, I’ll just make sure that any medical facility that studies me gives me a share of any resulting patents. It’ll be a tricky contract, but I know some good lawyers. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2019, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-superhuman-strength-now-how-profit/832643/45 "2019-04-18T20:47:19Z")
What about launching stuff into space? ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2019, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-superhuman-strength-now-how-profit/832643/46 "2019-04-18T21:02:27Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > I think they [already made a movie about that…](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038668/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_24) Wait! Vera Ellen did something other than White Christmas? ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2019, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-superhuman-strength-now-how-profit/832643/47 "2019-04-18T21:10:36Z")
You know that jar of spaghetti sauce that your wife wants to use and can’t get the lid to shift… Sure it will only get you a smile and a thank you but your secret will remain safe. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2019, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-superhuman-strength-now-how-profit/832643/48 "2019-04-19T14:48:17Z")
> [@](#): > > Quoth **kopek** : > > I don’t remember the name but there was a wrestler way back when (late 60s/early 70s) who mastered the trick of having cinder blocks broken on him with a sledge hammer; he had quite a fair run for a number of years with the trick. What? There’s no trick to that, and it doesn’t take any strength or skill at all. All you need is someone with good enough aim with a sledgehammer to hit a cinder block, and almost everyone has that. Physics professors do it all the time, usually while laying on a bed of nails. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-superhuman-strength-now-how-profit/832643.md?page=2)